#
# From: "Adam W. Feigin" <awf@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
#
# We recently decomissioned a couple of Alliant FX/80's which had these
# drives in them. Between for formatting program on the Alliant, and the
# Fujitsu manual, I came up with the following format.dat entry. We've been
# using this entry on the dozen or so drives we pulled from our Alliants
# for about 6 months now without any problems. The drive formats down to
# roughly 525MB with this entry....

# Yes, this is a duplicate entry. If you're running SunOS 4.1.1 or earlier
# on a sun4c (Sparcstation SLC/ELC/1/1+/IPC/IPX/2 without the patch for
# large SCSI disks, problems arise for SCSI disks with a formatted capacity
# greater than 2^21-1 bytes (1GB). Since the Wren VII is pretty close to
# that anyways, here's an entry for it that stays within the limit.

#
# Note: "SUN0999" entries constitute a "least common denominator" across
# all drives of the appropriate size that Sun ships. Sun may
# ship similarly sized drives from several different manufacturers,
# maintaining plug-and-play replaceability by using a generic "SUN0999"
# entry that works on all of them. It is sometimes possible to get a
# little more space or slightly better performance by using the entry
# for the disk manufacturer rather than the generic Sun entry.

# We are using a number of 1004Mb drives (IBM 3.5 inch, quite *fast*)
# distributed by Acropolis Systems, Inc.
# These entries work for us on 4/60s and 4/75's and equivalent entries work on
# HP9000/700s. Enjoy!

#
# From nir@ca44.zoran.hellnet.org
#
# I couldn't find a Fujitsu 2266SA 1.2GB entry in your format.faq.
# I recently installed such a disk, and tried some entries sugested both from
# my dealer, and from The Net.
#
# The best results I got was by using:

#
# From: John DiMarco (jdd@cdf.toronto.edu)
#
# Yes, this is a duplicate entry. If you're running SunOS 4.1.1 or earlier
# on a sun4c (Sparcstation SLC/ELC/1/1+/IPC/IPX/2 without the patch for
# large SCSI disks, problems arise for SCSI disks with a formatted capacity
# greater than 2^21-1 bytes (1GB). Since the Fujitsu 2266 is pretty
# close to that anyways, here's a format entry for the 2266 that stays
# within the limit. Parameters courtesy of Ian Watt from Fujitsu Canada

#
# From : Philip Brown <philb@soda.berkeley.edu>
#
#
#Note that this is for the ESDI disk.
#with an "ASDI" controller. although we fake it be be an MD21. ignore
#the final error about vendor-specific error. it really formats.
# also, when you label it, it is 90% likely to lock up the
# SCSI bus for a bit. try labeling immediately after. it should 99%
#likely work. don't ask me why. but from then on, you should
#have virtually no troubles with the drive.
#note also that this has NOTHING to do
#with the actual parameters of the drive. Which, I might add, are:
# 10 heads, 6 disks,
# 823 cylinders, variable sector size.

#
# From: Alan McRae <alan@metadigm.co.uk>
#
#
# Here are some more replies I got from my posting.
# It amuses me that no two people in the world are
# using the same format parameters. You would think
# that disk/controller manufacturers would take some
# interest in getting the best from their products
# and produce some useful information sheets.
#
# The 2nd entry below (metzger's) is interesting as
# it treats it as an imaginary one-headed disk
# (15*80 = 1215 sects/cyl less asect = 1207).
# Ought nhead be set to 1 in this case.